Wait, silence, ovation: shows change but the passion of the crowds crammed on the bleachers of the arenas of all times seems to be unchanged over millennia.
Stadiums, indoor and outdoor sport arenas are much more related to their Greek and Latin precursors than any other architecture ever built by human hands. This is because sport is a metaphor for life, and life has always been a sequence of challenges and battles, victories and defeats.
Competitiveness is one of the key characteristics of human biology: life itself is a competition to survival. For this reason, any architect’s gesture designing a sport arena is an ancient gesture. It is a gesture, which is balanced between function and theatricality. The greatest architects have made this gesture. All over the world, it continues to inspire and generate some of the most magnificent architectures of our time. Sport Citadel requires architects to make such gesture. At the foot of the Alps nearby Turin, in one of the most significant districts in the history of European sport, a vast area is about to host an ambitious dream: the creation of an arena and its sport citadel.
Sport citadel aims to generate a true acropolis of competitiveness.
It will be a global reference to practice, study and celebrate multiple disciplines. Prior to a training space, it will be a space to live. It will be a space where to materialize the dream of harmony, overcoming limits and pursuit of excellency, in which the sport practice is grounded.
It will be a unique and fascinating challenge. In fact, designing an area [for sport] means creating a sanctuary for the display of the sporting spectacle. Moreover, it means giving a reference to the community. It means creating a place where to hope and rejoice, be moved and touched. Here, thousands of hearts can be turned on in unison by one of the passions that has always been inflaming men and women of all times: sport.
Yac thanks all the architects who will take part in this challenge.
Winners
First Prize
SLASHArchitects
İpek Baycan, Şule ertürk, Nergis Kahraman, Marco Maria Nicola Giudicianni
Second Prize
Omnia Tre
Flavio Vasoli, Luca Ofria
Third Prize
zaas & yerce architecture
Ayça Taylan, Nail Egemen Yerce, Ege Barkın Tekkökoğlu, Ibrahim Beqiri, Nur Gülgör, Özgür Bulut Gümrükcü
Gold Mention
JafariGaoDuJung
Hyun Jae Jung, Niema Jafari, Yangwei Gao, Xuefeng Du
Gold Mention
Ctrl+Alt+Canc
Arturo Maria Enrico Failla, Valerio Mascali, Giulia Marchese
Gold Mention
Z
Múcio Vasconcelos, Renato Feitosa, Bruno Firmino, Ivison Guedes, David Leite
Gold Mention
COBO ARCHITECTURE
JORGE COBO SUSPERREGUI
Mention
CGCR
Rahul Faizer, Curran Neely, Adam Woodruff
Mention
biridin
Pedro Feriotti, José Victor Baraúna, Vitor Maciel, Uilian Marconato
Mention
BOLA
João Pedro Sommacal De Mello, Felipe Fachini Maia, Eduardo Dugaich
Mention
UFPIBR
Roberto Montenegro, Raniel Lima, Nathália Freire, Edilson Silva, Mônica Letícia Cardoso , Larissa Rafaella da Silva Sousa
Mention
BE359
Andrés Vicente Moreira Aguirre, John Vicente Marizaca Benitez, David Alfonso Arias Polo, Tatiane Corsi Garcia, Daniel Fernando Arias Polo, Patricio Macanchi, Gabriela Elizabeth Rogel Alejo, María Inés Villavicencio Vélez, Paola Granda, Jonathan Michael Jiménez Vicente, Johanna Gabriela Ortega León, Elvira Dayana Matapuncho Davila, Carolina Soledad Bravo Guerrero, Esteban Alejandro Beltran Samaniego
Mention
RVR Team
Álvaro Ruano Gonzalez, Daniel Martin-Villamuelas Bustarviejo, Santiago Rodríguez Valcárcel
Mention
NINI Ye Sam Ren
NINI ye, jiajun ren
Mention
PZ
Vasileios Poiriatzidis, Georgios Zapounidis
Mention
Davide Bertin
Davide Bertin
Mention
Antonello Monaco
Antonello Monaco, Paolo Carlotti, Cinzia Paciolla, Laura Schito